Building BRYT: A Case Study in Developing an Online Toolkit to Promote Business Information Literacy in Higher Education

Abstract

This paper highlights the design and development process that two academic business librarians employed to create an online toolkit of eLearning supports for business students. After receiving funding from their institution’s internal teaching innovation fund, they hired and worked with two eLearning design companies to produce the toolkit. The toolkit includes videos and PDF resources that show students how to retrieve specialized resources for key business research tasks. The librarians undertook this project to increase the online business information literacy offerings at their university and better support their institution’s diverse commuter, distance, and part-time student population. To develop a student-centered toolkit, the librarians used a curriculum mapping exercise, online surveying, focus groups, usability tests, and a student review group. They also adapted the ADDIE instructional design model and consulted adult learning theory to develop a series of micro-learning supports that were relevant and useful for undergraduate and graduate business students.

Keywords:

• eLearning
• online learning
• business education
• information literacy
• business information literacy
• case study
• adult learning theory application
• higher education
• student-centred approach
• ADDIE
• micro-learning support
• business students